A Brief History
On January 7, 1948, a Kentucky National Guard pilot, a World War II veteran, attempted to intercept a UFO along with 3 other US F-51 Mustang fighters. Multiple reports from Ohio and Kentucky said a huge, round, white object was up there and needed to be investigated. Three of the Mustangs finally turned back, but one unfortunate pilot kept going up and up until he lost control of his fighter, which crashed, killing the pilot.
Digging Deeper
Are these reports of supposedly extra-terrestrial flying objects real? We have 17 previous articles on the subject, and the US Air Force took the subject seriously enough to commission Project Blue Book. Even more intriguing was a promise in late 2022 that the US Department of Defense would soon release a report on UFO encounters.
People keep seeing and reporting UFO, causing us to ask, “Are they real?”
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Historical Evidence
For more information, please see…
Air Force, United States. USAF Fact Sheet 95-03 Unidentified Flying Objects and Air Force Project Blue Book. 2012.
Randle, Kevin. Project Blue Book Exposed. Marlowe & Company, 1998.
The featured image in this article, an artist’s impression by Crobard~commonswiki of the pursuit of a UFO by Thomas Mantell’s plane during the Mantell affair in 1948, has been released into the public domain worldwide by the copyright holder of this work.
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